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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






2. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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3. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






4. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn






5. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






6. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.






7. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.






8. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






9. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits

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10. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






11. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






12. English as a second language






13. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.






14. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally






15. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy






16. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.






17. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






18. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.






19. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






20. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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21. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds






22. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss






23. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






24. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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25. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress






26. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.






27. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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28. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.






29. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






30. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.






31. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






32. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies






33. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.






34. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.






35. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






36. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






37. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






38. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






39. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






40. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






41. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school






42. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.






43. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.






44. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






45. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.






46. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)






47. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness






48. Closed syllable






49. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






50. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language